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If you want to heal Heal others And smile or weep At this very happy reversal of fate

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Fate
Happy
Others
Reversal
Weep
Heal
Smile

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Don't worry Renee, I won't commit suicide and I won't burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
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People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
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I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
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I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.
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Art is emotion without desire.
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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
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Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very moment, as I am writing, Constitution the cat is going by with her tummy dragging close to the floor. This cat has absolutely nothing constructive to do in life and still she is heading toward something, probably an armchair.
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We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
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Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
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We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others we just meet ourselves.
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I won't get any better by punishing the people I can't heal.
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Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.
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Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul.
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We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
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The strong ones among humans do nothing. They talk and talk again.
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Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
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